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Exercise and Health Benefits

This research paper discusses the health benefits associated with exercise in regards to cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and ...

Cardiovascular Disease, Research on Contributing Factors

This research paper pertains to current literature that investigates the relationship between nutrition, obesity and atherosclerot...

PICO Question, Childhood Obesity

This research paper presents a PICO question that pertains to the problem of childhood overweight/obesity. Six pages in length, fi...

A Prevention Approach, Early Childhood Obesity

This research paper argues that early childhood obesity prevention programs are the best approach. Four pages in length, six sourc...

An Intervention: Family Health, Fitness

This research paper pertains to the problem of childhood obesity. The writer discusses the need for intervention and describes an ...

Article Review of Barbara A. Dennison's 'Television Viewing and Television in Bedroom Associated with Overweight Risk Among Low Income Preschool Children'

significantly to the problem. The allure of the silver screen, whether that screen be that of a television or a game pad, has tra...

Adolescent and Child Obesity

In eleven pages the problem of obesity in American children is examined in terms of adolescent health risks and causes that includ...

Food Advertising & Children

target children as their principle demographic also have Web sites that market to children (Cowdrey 19). A child who gets bored wi...

Childhood Obesity

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

Obesity and Nutrition

as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Obesity and Television Viewing: A Review of Literature

factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...

Health Promotion/Childhood Obesity

14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...

Epidemiology of Obesity

activity patterns, and resting and active metabolisms" (Speakman, 2004, p. 2090S). Nevertheless, considerable advances have come a...

Health Promotion Proposal/Childhood Obesity

low self-esteem," but there are also serious health repercussions that can follow children into their adult years (Henry and Royer...

Study on Obesity - An Analysis

relationship between childhood abuse and obesity in young adulthood. The abstract of that paper says that the study was of young a...

The Paradox in the World Food Crisis

different part of the globe, "hundreds of millions eat too much, or consume the wrong sorts of food, and it is making them ill," a...

Availability of Junk Food in Schools

2010). Frieden, Dietz and Collins (2010) point out that policy interventions promote encouraging children to make healthy food c...

Two Topics, Self-Efficacy/Childhood Obesity

Self-efficacy is a concept that refers to the degree to which individuals perceive themselves as having the ability and capability...

Childhood Obesity/The Role of Schools

and adolescents from 1990 to 2000. Furthermore, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey revealed that 7 percent of in...

The Need to Improve School Lunches

need to eat healthy food in order to feel good and, therefore, learn better. The American lifestyle of sedentary occupations and l...

Analysis ofTwo Greek Statues

the prime of life ("Marble...woman"). This trend included depicting ordinary people, such as this statue, which is known as "The O...

Troop 504, Columbia Montour Boy Scouts

by spotters" ("Age-appropriate," 2011). The homepage of Troop #504 is bland, uninspiring and sterile. It features a rather small...

Creating an Outreach Ministry/Pastoral Marriage Counseling

addressing a culture that is distinct and with its own specific worldviews and orientations (Borthwick, 1999). There are t...

Black Youth Gangs in Toronto

reputed leader of a Tamil gang whose pitched battles with rival gangs on the streets of Toronto claimed the "lives of more than a...

British Columbia and the Problems of Substance Abuse Among Canadian Youth

take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...

Cultural Diversity/Religion in South Africa

doing, we become fully human, but that humanness is reliant on our connections with others. When these connections are good, embra...

Dr. W. LaVome Robinson on Depression

in; many influences in these young girls lives are explored to determine why they had decided to participate in such risky behavio...

Mathematics Teacher and Student Inspiration Jaime Escalante

High School, Tito Melean (Jagodzinski, 2001, p. 232). This teacher was in the habit of carrying around a long, thick, bone from th...

At Risk Youth and Recreation Programs

In twelve pages this research paper considers at risk youth and the crime intervention effectiveness of recreational programs such...